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13/08/2024

Come play with Sandbox, a full-service production house.
You dream it, we can create it. New reel drop 👇👇


Soundbyte Studios

06/08/2024

Thanks for the shout, Rare!
Jack Gilmour and Jack Connell, well done chaps...

05/04/2024

🌄BEFORE DAWN NOW IN CINEMAS🌄
We look forward to everyone now having the opportunity to see this Perth epic on the big screen!

09/02/2024

We're working on an exciting upcoming project and looking for contributors! If the below sounds like you or someone you know, we'd love to hear from you.

Get in touch!

30/01/2024

Huge Congratulations to Jordon Prince-Wright & the whole Before Dawn team!
We're proud to have helped push the film across the finish line and looking forward to seeing it on the big screen!

30/01/2024

We're proud to have contributed our efforts VFX, Sound & Delivery to bring 'Before Dawn' to life!
Check out the latest trailer from Umbrella Entertainment!

27/07/2023

A tap dancing Octopus? Yeah, you heard that right. No Song and Dance is a comedic brand campaign for Kleenheat, produced by Sandbox with The Brand Agency and directed by Armand de Saint-Salvy. In a playful mix of singing, dancing, and 2d cel animation, Kleenheat shines through as the company who focuses on their customers and Let’s Life Flow.

Production Company: Sandbox Productions
Director: Armand De Saint-Salvy
Executive Producer: Hollie Gibson
Senior Producer: Kelly Marie Miller
Production Coordinator: Madison Armstrong
Production Coordinator: Jack Gilmour
1st Assistant Director: Stuart Morrice
Director of Photography: Patrick O’Sullivan
1st Assistant Camera: Arthur Bienkowski
2nd Assistant Camera: Finn Barrett
Q-Take Op: David Attwell
Sound Recordist: Brett Stayt
Gaffer: Grant Wilson
Best Boy: Chris Martin
Best Boy: Finn Barrett
Grip: Greg Stirling
Best Boy Grip: Max Nelson
Best Boy Grip: Zac Walker
Production Designer: Sally Phipps
Art Department Assistant: Darrell Beck
Art Department Assistant: Gabrielle Butler
Wardrobe Stylist: Maria Papandrea
Wardrobe Assistant: Danielle Chilton
Hair & Makeup Artist: Kate Farmer
On Set VFX: Jaemie Manners
Location Manager: Crystal McCallum
Location Assistant: Ella Meinck
Casting: Toesox Casting
On Set Medic: Alicia White
Choreographer: Charisse Parnell
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Fake Mum: Meghan O’Shea
Fake Dad: Matthew Lehmann
Fake Son: Frederick Bone
Real Mum: Justin Hewitt
Real Dad: Kylie Jovanou
Real Son: Charlie Savage
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Post Production House: Sandbox Productions
Offline/Online Editor: Joel Taylor
Colour Grade: Yanni Kronenberg
Animation Studio: Unlisted.
Animation Producer: Sarah Poppitz
Animation Director: Nikhil Markale
Animation Director: Aggelos Papantoniou
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Sound Studio: Soundbyte Studios
Music Composition: Robert Woods
Sound Mix: Brad Habib
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Agency: The Brand Agency
Executive Creative Director: Dean Hunt
Copywriter: Dave Wilson
Senior Art Director: Andrew Allingham
Business Director: Carolyn Mooney
Account Manager: Paula Helander
Agency Producer: Rozanne Fretz
Production Coordinator: Morgan Solecio
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Client: Kleenheat
Brand and Campaign Marketing Manager: Debra Packer
Brand and Campaign Marketing Manager: Mish Sequeira
Brand and Campaign Marketing Manager: Felicity Fawcett
Content Manager: Georgia Wiley
Manager Sales & Marketing: Wayne McCrae
General Manager: Tanya Rybarczyk
Marketing Manager: Sasha Anderson
Content Producer: Sarah Jasper
Partnerships Marketing Coordinator: Larissa Mellon
Graphic & Digital Designer: Emma Clarke

09/02/2023

Melle Branson’s 2021 ‘Roll Up for WA’ campaign inspired nostalgic memories and feelings into the hearts of many West Australians to encourage the public to get vaccinated against COVID.
This emotional rollercoaster was a huge collaboration between RARE, the WA Government, Sandbox Productions, Melle Branson, Stella Donnelly, the WA Symphony Orchestra and more.

Client:
Agency: .rare
Production & Post:
Post Sound:
Music:
Vocals:

23/11/2022

Congrats to all of the nominees of the WA Screen Culture Awards. It has been a pleasure to work on so many of these projects with the filmmaking teams.

Ben Young Renee Webster Tania Chambers Judi Levine Jamie Hilton Michael Pontin John V Soto Martin Wilson Nicole Ferraro Ella Wright Janelle Landers Brendan Hutchens Lauren McDonough Jennie Feyen Art & Film Poppy Van Oorde-Grainger Ian Hale

Celebrating the achievement, innovation and ambition of our local industry, the WA Screen Culture Awards (WASCAs) embrace all forms from new, established and emerging screen practices. Now in its third year, the WASCAs will be held on Sunday 4 December at Luna Cinemas Leederville hosted by comedian....

05/09/2022

We had the pleasure of working on the post for The Unusual Pet Vets for Metamorflix last year. You can watch this fun series on Stan. and on free-to-air on 9Gem this Sunday at 7pm

Subscribe here: https://bit.ly/2nI3zka Full episodes here: https://bit.ly/2p7nl979Now is your destination for live TV and on-demand shows from Channel 9, 9Ge...

29/06/2022

This NAIDOC week see the Galup VR Experience at WA Museum Boola Bardip by Noongar theatre-maker Ian Wilkes and artist/filmmaker Poppy Van Oorde-Grainger, with an oral history from Elder Doolann-Leisha Eatts.

Entry to Galup VR Experience is free as part of NAIDOC Week from 3 to 17 July.

20/05/2022

"Filmed in Fremantle, WA, the film feels groundbreaking not just for Australian cinema, but film globally. Despite great strides in entertainment's depiction and treatment of women's stories, there is still a way to go. How To Please A Woman feels like we've reached that new frontier, and the best part is how naturally it arrives."

How To Please A Woman is out now in cinemas across Australia. Get a group of friends together and go see it this weekend!

https://www.mamamia.com.au/how-to-please-a-woman-movie-review/

This is the film we've been waiting for.

19/05/2022

How To Please A Woman is out in cinemas today! View the session times below and grab your ticket!

https://movies.madmanfilms.com.au/howtopleaseawoman

Tell your friends 🍑 🧹 How To Please A Woman is now showing in cinemas around Australia!

19/05/2022

Today is the day that the hilarious new comedy How To Please A Woman is released in cinemas across the country. It’s all the things you could want from a movie…. it’s fun, clever, entertaining, heartfelt and funny. Sandbox had the pleasure (excuse the pun) of working with the fabulous producers Tania Chambers and Judi Levine and director Renee Webster on the visual fx, grade and delivery of this feature.

Get a group of friends together this weekend and go and see this fantastic film. See session times below:

https://movies.madmanfilms.com.au/howtopleaseawoman

18/05/2022

‘Lotterée’ is the latest Oz Lotto campaign developed by for . Directed by Sandbox Director and all-round whizz kid Robert Woods, this fresh creative allowed him to have fun with comedy and character.  ‘Hooray for the Lotterée’ introduces us to “Australia’s colourful Auntie” Sue and her husband Glen, both expertly performed by and Greg Pereira.

Full credits below:

Client:
Agency:
Production & Post Company:
Audio Post:

Production:
Director:
Producer:
Director of Photography: .s.fitzgerald
Production Assistant: 
1st Assistant Director: Stuart Morris
1st Assistant Camera:
2nd Assistant Camera:
Gaffer:
Best Boy:
Stills Photographer: .mackay
Stills Photographer Assistant: &
Sound Recordist: Glenn Dillon
Wardrobe:
Wardrobe Assistant: Gavin Campbell
Hair, Makeup & Wig: Deanna Nishi
Art Department:
Art Department Assistant:

Post-Production
Editor:
Colourist:
Graphics: Matthew Kerley
Audio Mix: & Lachlan Cooper

Talent:
Sue Finley:
Glenn: Greg Pereira 
Agency:

Agency:
Executive Creative Director: Richard Berney 
Art Director: Jake Ransom 
Copywriter: Lachy Banton 
Head of Art: Andrew Allingham 
Finished Artist: Suzanne Whoston 
Head of Planning: John Linton 
Business Director: Eloise Cribb 
Business Manager: Renee Harris 
Producer: Johnathan Julius 

Client:
Director, Marketing and Sales: Jenny Cullen 
Manager, Brand and Campaign: Sandra De Witt 
Marketing Officer: Caryn Leong

04/03/2022

Sandbox director Dominic Pearce has once again collaborated with artist Ian Strange on his latest project DALISON, working on both the installation itself and the accompanying documentary.

Watch the trailer and find out more about the project below.

Sandbox Director Dominic Pearce collaborates with artist Ian Strange 0 DALISON is the newest work by Australian transdisciplinary artist Ian Strange in collaboration with American musician Trevor Powers. Sitting somewhere in the ether between photographic work, lighting installation, live music even...

10/02/2022

Congratulations to Ella Wright of Tiny Light Films on the release of the documentary Stage Changers. Made over 8 long years this documentary follows the wonderfully creative local theatre group The Last Great Hunt. Sandbox worked on the project in its very final stages. Watch the full film on iwonder from today!

The Last Great Hunt are a team of young, passionate theatre makers who have just been presented with an opportunity that could change their lives forever. UK theatre powerhouse Underbelly have invited them to pitch a large-scale work for investment. This group of aspirational artists have always bee...

13/01/2022

17/12/2021

Two exciting producers have joined the Sandbox team...

Following the recent promotion of Maria Elena to Senior Producer, Sandbox is further bolstering their production capabilities adding two new Senior Producers to the team, Hollie Gibson and Emilia Jolakoska.

15/11/2021

Sandbox had a great time celebrating the Perth Advertising and Design Club Awards last Friday night, picking up Bronze and Silver for Best Editing for Denzil Heeger and Tony Bannan respectively and Silver for Brad Habib for Best Use of Sound in Radio via Soundbyte Studios. We also produced and directed some of the big campaign winners including “Yeah, Nah” for Gatecrasher, “Not Thinking About Gas” for The Brand Agency and “Make The Safe Call” for Wunderman Thompson.

We also did the post-production on Danny Green's Stop the Coward Punch Campaign which took out a bunch of awards for Martin Wilson via his company Third Storey Pictures.

Congrats to all the winners and thanks to Perth Advertising and Design Club - PADC for all your effort putting on a great event

08/11/2021

Keep the party going this Friday night at the official PADC afters, thanks to our awesome sponsors Cue Sound, Sandbox and Soundbyte Studios. Tickets sales close Thursday, so get yours now! https://events.humanitix.com/padc-skulls-afterparty

04/11/2021

Watch the trailer for the hilarious new comedy How To Please A Woman. The film was produced in WA by Tania Chambers from Fiesty Dame Productions and Judi Levine from Such Much Films and written/directed by the talented Renee Webster

Sandbox worked with this wonderful team on the VFX, colour grade and delivery of the feature as well as the filming of the behind-the-scenes content.

Keep an eye out for this delightful film when it is released in cinemas next year.

01/11/2021

Congrats to all the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) nominees from WA. Such wonderful and varied work coming from the talent in this state. Special shout out to Stevie Cruz-Martin who directed The Tailings which has received a nomination for Best Short Form Drama, Ben Young who directed two episodes of Clickbait which has been nominated for Best Drama Series and Rams which has been nominated for Best Film which Sandbox was part of the post-production team on.

🎉🎊🎉 A huge congratulations to the WA productions nominated for the 2021 Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Awards - 11 nominations received across five screen projects!!

The Furnace
Best Film - Timothy White, Tenille Kennedy
Best Direction - Roderick MacKay
Best Original Screenplay - Roderick MacKay
Best Lead Actor – Ahmed Malek
Best Supporting Actor – Baykali Ganambarr

Rams
Best Film - Janelle Landers, Aidan O'Bryan
Best Adapted Screenplay - Jules Duncan
Best Supporting Actor – Michael Caton

100% Wolf: Legend of the Moonstone
Best Children's Program - Barbara Stephen, Alexia Gates-Foale, Michael Bourchier

Ozzy Man Reviews
Best Short Form Entertainment - Ethan Marrell

Hug the Sun (Grouse House)
Best Short Form Comedy - Aaron McCann, Sam Lingham

Round 2 voting is now open for AACTA members and closes Sunday, 7 November ⏰

05/10/2021

Lovely new work coming soon by Matsu

Sneaky still on set while directing some more talented peeps than me. Musician and composer Brain Kruger, DoP Lewis Potts and AC Daniel Stone at the Astor Theatre Perth for Sandbox

21/09/2021

We were privileged to work on the new Roll Up for WA campaign for Rare and Department of Premier and Cabinet Mark McGowan. The TV and social media campaign was directed by Melle Branson and produced by the Sandbox power duo of Jenny Crabb and Maria Elena Amatulli. It features the amazing Stella Donnelly and West Australian Symphony Orchestra covering Louis Armstrong’s “What a wonderful world”. Cut by Sandbox editor Denzil Heeger at the The Backlot Perth.

Client: Department of Premier and Cabinet
Agency: Rare
Production Company: Sandbox

Director: Melle Branson
Producer: Maria Elena Amatulli
Executive Producer: Jenny Crabb
DOP: Lewis Potts

Hero Talent: Sheree Lockyer

Offline Editor / Grade: Denzil Heeger
VFX Artist: Jaemie Manners / Tony Bannan / Matthew James Kerley

Sound Studio: Soundbyte Studios
Sound Engineer: Brad Habib
Vocals: Stella Donnelly
Label Management: Philip John Stevens/ Jarrah Records
Arrangement: James Ledger
Performance: West Australian Symphony Orchestra
WASO: Evan Kennea

Agency credits:
Managing Director: Callum McKenzie
Executive Creative Director: Brett Wheeler
Account Director: Adriana Robbins
Agency Producer: Damien Del Borrello

10/09/2021

Sandbox had the pleasure of collaborating with Sydney-based hybrid agency Paper Moose on this R U OK Day 2021 TVC, working with R U OK Ambassador Ming Johanson. Part of a wider campaign which was shot on both east and west coasts, this was a fantastic opportunity to contribute to such an important conversation.

R U OK? has partnered with AKQA Media to develop and launch the 2021 R U OK? Day campaign.

16/08/2021

Watch the latest Kleenheat "Are you thinking about gas" TVCs from our friends at The Brand Agency. These were produced and posted by the team at Sandbox and directed by Richard Vilensky.

Thanks to all the crew and talent involved!

EP: Jenny Crabb
Producer: Maria Elena Amatulli
Production Manager: Dumi Mashinini
Editor: Denzil Heeger
Colourist: Jaemie Manners

https://wa.campaignbrief.com/kleenheat-extends-their-new-are-you-thinking-about-gas-brand-campaign-via-the-brand-agency/

Following on from the successful launch of Kleenheat’s latest brand campaign, new creative via The Brand Agency has been released into market. It’s a move that forms a key part in the communications strategy to ensure the campaign remains fresh in the target audience’s mind, whilst adding to t...

23/07/2021

Exciting new work by Ben Young. Out of on Netflix August 25th.

Congrats Ben and team!

Father. Brother. Husband. Liar? Who is Nick Brewer really?Watch Clickbait, only on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/ClickbaitSUBSCRIBE: http://bit.ly/29qBUt7...

20/07/2021

Our talented friend (and Sandbox director) Stevie Cruz-Martin breaks down her collaborative approach to lighting, post-production and working with actors.

PODCAST: FROM PULSE TO THE TAILINGS
Screen Australia

Director Stevie Cruz-Martin breaks down her collaborative approach to lighting, post-production, and working with actors.

02/06/2021

Super fun TV and online campaign for Kleenheat via The Brand Agency has just gone to air with the first in the series: 'Locked Out'.

Directed by Richard Vilensky, shot by Mick McDermott.
Talent is Kate Elder at Actors Management International
..are YOU thinking about gas??

Maria Elena Amatulli Jenny Crabb Dumi Mashinini Denzil Heeger Glenn Cronly Dillon Jaemie Manners Neil Martin Caitlin Jacobs

Client: Kleenheat Agency: The Brand Agency Production Company: Sandbox Director: Richard Vilensky EP: Jenny Crabb Producer: Maria Elena Amatulli DOP: Michael…